Welcome on our “Living on a farm in Slovakia – Blog”. In May 2008 we have bought a smallholding in Slovakia without ever having seen it and we have moved to our farm in September 2008. Since then we have started to get acquainted with our neighbours, learn the Slovak language, renovate the house, regain our land from nature and we have actually started to farm on our land in spring 2009. On this blog you can follow our progress and setbacks.
Have fun reading it!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Staying

Since ten days our horse is putting his best foot forward. He finally starts acting as a grown up horse not the adolescent he used to be. We had put an advert on the net to sell him, not seeing the use of him at our farm or campsite. But now he starts to earn his residence permit. We are teaching him to pull objects, so he can be used to drag wood logs out of our forest.

I also go on daily rides with him, which is with autumn coloring the forest around us something magical. Today we met a large group of mouflons and a lonely fox...

This is me

Farm Lazy is a small goat and sheep dairy and cheese company in southern Slovakia, situated 8 km from the village Cerovo in a part called 'Lazy'. It is owned and operated by Arnold Sikking and Bernadette Kuijpers. Both have a great love of animals, artisan cheese and the unique challenges of farm life. The farm was founded in 2008 and is the home of dozens of sheep and goats and a variety of other farm animals like pigs, chickens and ponies. Visit the Farm page to learn more.